Program

All planned times are "sharp", without the usual 10 min. delay.

Friday:

2:45-3:00 PM Cookies in the East Hall 2nd floor Common room

3:00-4:00 PM Ruth Lawrence (University of Michigan): Modularity in quantum invariants of Seifert manifolds, 1360 East Hall

4:30-5:30 PM Ernesto Lupercio (University of Michigan): Complex and Real Holomorphic Bott Periodicity and Monopoles, 1360 East Hall

Saturday:

9:30 AM Coffee (East Hall 2nd floor Common Room)

10:00-11:00 AM Stephan Stolz (University of Notre Dame): Manifolds of positive scalar curvature and the Baum-Connes Conjecture, 1360 East Hall

11:30-12:30 AM J. Peter May (University of Chicago): Brave new model categories of diagram spectra, 1360 East Hall

2:30-3:30 PM Mark Mahowald (Northwestern University): Spectra with finitely presented homology over the Steenrod algebra, 1360 East Hall

3:30-4:00 PM Cookies in the East Hall 2nd floor Common Room

4:00-5:00 PM Paul Goerss (Northwestern University): Recovering information about a space from its chains, 1360 East Hall

6:00 PM Dinner party at the East Hall Atrium

Sunday:

10:00 AM Coffee, (East Hall 2nd floor Common Room)

10:30-11:30 AM Cameron Gordon (University of Texas): Simple 3-manifolds and Dehn filling, 1360 East Hall

12:00-1:00 PM Shmuel Weinberger (University of Chicago): On critical points of Riemannian functionals, 1360 East Hall